Brazil Floods Drive Thousands From Their Homes
When I left for work on Monday, I could still get through the water-logged street with my car. By the afternoon, the army was rescuing people with a truck," says Porto Alegre resident Magda Moura. That was the day that the floods which have devastated parts of southern Brazil cut off the building she lived in. "By Wednesday, the water had reached [a height of] 1.7m (5ft 6in)," she recalls. […]